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Tempe Mission Palms Hotel and Conference Center

Our venue for the 2009 Metanexus Conference will be the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel and Conference Center. Plan to join us in July.
   

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Nancy Ellen Abrams
Our Cosmically Pivotal Moment

Dawn Adrian
Burning Through the Roots

A. Karim Ahmed
Cosmological Origin of Life, Systems Biology and Aesthetic Beauty: The Harmony, Grace and Serenity of Nature in a Human Dominated Planet

Walter Truett Anderson
The Making of a New Biophilia: Evolutionary Governance and the Modern Creation Myth

Paul Richard Blum
Epistemology and Cosmology in Neoplatonism: Is Cognition a Mind-Body-Problem?

Craig Boyd
Veneer Theory, Primatology, and the Evolution of Altruism

Daniel Button
Environmentalism and the End of the World:Our Eschatological Dilemma

Coralie Buxant
Why People Turn to Religion and Spirituality?: Positive Emotions as Leading to Religion and Spirituality

Gelu Calina
The Universe between the Need of Faith and the Need of Knowledge:Four Centuries of Scientific Astronomy

Kresimir Cerovac
Dialogue between Religion/Theology and Science as the Imperative of Time

Ioan Chirila
Prospects for the Unity of Knowledge: Cosmos, Cult and Culture. An Orthodox Approach

Gerald Cleaver
The Whole Story of the Multiverse in String Cosmology

Adam Cohen
Religion, Culture, and the Personification of Non-Human Entities

Ronald Cole-Turner
The Concept of Potency in Developmental Biology and Classical Metaphysics: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry

Radu Constantinescu
The Universe between the Need of Faith and the Need of Knowledge:Four Centuries of Scientific Astronomy

Nicola Hoggard Creegan
God, Strings, Emergence, and the Future of the World

Kenneth W. Davis
“A Mirror up to Nature”: Cosmos, Nature, and Culture in Shakespeare

Aubrey de Grey
Prospects for Defeating Aging Altogether

François de Soete
Freewill, Determinism, and the Illusion of Purpose: A Compatibilist Conception of Meaning and Purpose

Robert A. Delfino
Science and the Inescapability of Metaphysics

Gregory N. Derry
Modern Physical Cosmology and Traditional Creation Myths—Is There Any Relationship?

Paula S. Derry
The Place of Biology in Cosmology

Nancy Doetzel
Synopsis: The Views of Spiritual Healers

Christian E. Early
Attachment: A Trans-disciplinary Perspective Viewed through Anabaptist Eyes

Duane Elgin
The Living Universe

Lucio Florio
Latin-American Prospective to an Integration of Knowledge: Beyond “Interdisciplinarity” and “Transdisciplinarity”

Thomas B. Fowler
Overview of Theological and Religious Interpretations of Evolution


Naturalism and Science

Bagher Ghobary Bonab
Attachment to God in Christian and Muslim Communities: Foundational for Human Flourishing?

Karl Giberson
When Science Becomes Religion

William Grassie
In the Heavens as it is on Earth: Astrobiology and the Human Prospect


Resources and Problems in Whitehead's Process Metaphysics

Neil Greenberg
The Natural History of Truth: The Neuropsychology of Belief

David R. Hufton
Spirit of the Act: Approaching the Inherent Transdisciplinarity of 'Spirituality’

James J. Hurtak
The Cosmology of Consciousness: Understanding Our Interconnectedness

Desiree Hurtak
The Cosmology of Consciousness: Understanding Our Interconnectedness

Chris Impey
Why Are We So Lonely?


Reacting to the Prospect of Life in the Universe

Christopher Jargodzki
From Stephen Hawking's Flexiverse to Synchronicity: Intimations of Our Transhuman Future

Elsebet Jegstrup
Seeing Beginnings: Buber, Levinas, and the Original Encounter

Kathryn Johnson
Religion, Culture, and the Personification of Non-Human Entities

Eileen Johnson
Representation and Interpretation: Interrogating the Ambiguous Space between Research and Art in Education and Social Sciences

David Jou
The Size of the Universe as a Cultural and Theological Question

Norman J. Kachuck
The Evolution of Mind and the Composite, Kluge-Like Nature of the Soul: A Personal Prolegomenon

Erman Kaplama
Introduction to Cosmological Aesthetics Through The Kantian Sublime and Nietzschean Dionysian

Dimitry Kiryanov
Cosmology and Creation: An Orthodox Perspective.

Carsten König
Hegel and the Philosophy of Nature – Renewing the Speculative Idea

Javier Leach
Mathematics, Empirical Sciences and Theology

Boguslawa Lewandowska
Question of Methodology of Scientific Theories of Complex Reality

Fernando María López Aguilar
Can the Configuration of the Human Consciousness be Explained by Means of Quantum Oscillation Collective States Inserted in the Skeleton of Neuron Cells?

Yoram Lubling
Seeing Beginnings: Buber, Levinas, and the Original Encounter

Abdul Majid
Healing Power of Faith, Prayer and Sacred Readings

Ted Metzler
The Machine in the Ghost?

Hugo Meynell
Synopsis: The Views of Spiritual Healers

Roman Miller
Attachment: A Trans-disciplinary Perspective Viewed through Anabaptist Eyes

Maureen Miner
Attachment to God in Christian and Muslim Communities: Foundational for Human Flourishing?

Max More
Hyperagency and Hope: Critiquing Human Limitationism

Nancy K. Morrison
Morality: Toward an Anthropological/Neuroscientific Conceptualization

Robbi Motta
Synopsis: The Views of Spiritual Healers

John Paletta
A Fourth Century North African’s Theory of Ambiogenesis

C. Jack Pearce
We are Going with the Cosmic Flow: But Will We Float or Sink?

Roy J. J. Pereira
Meditation and Beyond – Phenomena Beyond Materialism

Ted Peters
Perils and Promises in the Transhumanist Vision

Roberto Poli
Analysis and Synthesis

Joel Press
Functional Analysis and the Meaning of Life

Joel Primack
Our Cosmically Pivotal Moment

Margaret Race
Workshop Report on Astrobiology Societal Issues: The Need for Research and Analysis of Our Collective Futures

Varadaraja V Raman
Transdisciplinarity as the Seacrh for Unity behind the Diversity

Barry Graham Ritchie
Our Impending Cyborg Future: A Pause for Reflection

Holmes Rolston
Three Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life, Mind

Russell Sawa
Synopsis: The Views of Spiritual Healers

Inna Semetsky
Virtual Ontology/Real Experiences

Sally K. Severino
Morality: Toward an Anthropological/Neuroscientific Conceptualization

Magda Stavinschi
The Universe between the Need of Faith and the Need of Knowledge:Four Centuries of Scientific Astronomy

William Stoeger
The Quest for Understanding and Meaning: From Process and Complexity to Meaning and the Transcendent

Marijan Sunjic
Critical Comments on Reductionism in Physical Sciences

William H, Thomas
Enemy of Nature or Steward of Biodiversity?: The Role of Human Disturbance in Fostering Biodiversity

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
The Transhumanist Project: Assessment and Critique

Orlin Vakarelov
The Cognitive Agent

Natasha Vita-More
Transhumanist Aesthetics: A Theoretical Approach to Enhanced Existence

Hans von Baeyer
Wolfgang Pauli’s Journey Inward

Nikolaus von Stillfried
Orchestrated Randomness: Could Generalized Entanglement Offer a Middle Way for the Theory of Evolution?

Rita Voss
The System of Ichinen Sanzen: A Contribution to a Theory of Cognition

Jonathan Weidenbaum
Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos

Ian Winchester
Synopsis: The Views of Spiritual Healers

Jakob Wolf
The Idea of Design in Nature: Science or Phenomenology? 

Debbie Zembal
Synopsis: The Views of Spiritual Healers

Martin Zwick
Holism and Human History

 

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